Rihanna Latex Redux: The Versatility Of Our Most Favorite Textile

It’s as much the prerogative of a lady to change her mind, as to slip into what seems almost to be the same latex wardrobe more than once. Even if that lady happens to be Rihanna.Attending Moncler’s “City of Genius” event in China last week, the music and fashion mogul, closed out the Shanghai Fashion …

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The 2024 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show: Firsts, Model Returns and…Cher

There was even some latex couture on display, as much as wings, lace, iconic models, Cher, and lots of firsts, all at the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Happening this week in NYC and broadcast on Amazon Live, Prime Video, and across VS YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, by all accounts, this inclusive rebranding overhaul revival …

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Happening In Threes….Look Who Wore What Latex At What Recent Events

You have surely heard of that seeming cultural phenomenon of things happening in threes…well this number sometimes does indeed play across the latex wardrobe world. We tend to see a bunch of great sightings of our favorite textile lumped together, as you read here often. But in the case of latex couture postings last week, …

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Art Is Fashion, Fashion Is Art: The 2025 Met Gala and UK’s Frieze

Not that we ever expect to see much latex (although the outfits can get rather alternative) we do hold out hope each year to see our favorite textile on grand display at the “Oscars of Fashion,” the Met Gala. This year’s 2025 Gala theme has been announced, some seven months before attendees will be showing …

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Get Out And Vote…for Latex 24/7

Through the Dawnamatrix progression of latex designing, we have embraced kimono culture, participated in alternative fetish runway events, and made our presence known with Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga. We have seen our work in print and video, on stage at the VMA’s, and in movies and streaming shows. We have been honored with awards …

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Trending Halloween Costumes, 2024

Be they cloth, leather and lace, PVC, full-on latex wardrobes, or a combination of any of the textiles (or none at all) this time of year lots of us start to wonder what costumes will be trending for 2024. We know almost every costume shop, cultural blog, and even high-end couture site weighs in with …

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Debbie Harry, SNL & SPirit, Filipino fashion

How about another one of our semi-regular fashion news roundups, be it about latex, alternate fashion, or regular wacky wardrobe happenings… First, there is the icon Debbie Harry and Gucci. Ionic lead singer, songwriter, and co-founder of equally iconic rock band Blondie, Debbie has a sure style sensibility all her own. She fronts the new …

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The 25th Anniversary of Christina Aguilera: Spotify Anniversaries Live…and Latex

Christina Aquilera wearing latex? Who’d thunk it?! The 43-year-old diva celebrated the release of her debut album, Christina Aguilera, in partnership with Spotify, this week. The streaming service and Aguilera partnered on The 25th Anniversary of Christina Aguilera: Spotify Anniversaries Live meet-up and release, giving Xtina fans a chance to revisit their favorite songs via their favorite …

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Heidi In Latex, Belinda Recovers, L’Oréal Rocks

Sometimes all it takes is one spectacular lady wearing a simple latex dress to make a moment special. Even in the face of a lot of other fashions, we all know how our most favorite textile worn by a stunning model, a pop diva, a sultry sexy male actor or can surely make a statement. …

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Prada Accessorizes

We have often mentioned how latex accessories can bring quite the fashionable ‘uptick’ to a wardrobe. Even a wardrobe that doesn’t include any other latex. Gloves, shoes, and even jewelry can add to one’s overall alt. fashion attempt, as well as what we will be on about in what follows. So much can make or …

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OrlanDo’s Look, A Banana at The Emmy’s, Cher Is An Angel

Be they involving latex, an alternative fashion moment, or some cosplay news, you know how we often like to grab a bunch of stories from the news cycle and give them an airing from time to time here. No, we are certainly not above ‘acquiring’ these little snippets, from the sublime to the serious to …

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The 2024 VMA’s

The glitz, music, red carpet, and surely the leather, lace, and even sometimes, yes latex couture at the yearly VMA’s always make for good blog posts, tweets, and many day-after critiques. Although we have seen MTV’s unique answer to the Grammy’s now through four decades, it’s those wardrobes that never disappoint, no matter who wins …

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Paris Hilton Teaches At Her Academy Wearing Latex

Stealing an RV containing her bespoke outfits did not stop Paris Hilton from infusing her new “Bad Bitch Academy” video with scrumptious latex couture. As she presses flesh and throws parties for her new album, with this third single, Paris Hilton presents herself as the startling singular lady she has always been. In this new …

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Nadia Lee Cohen takes on Allen Jones…In A good way

One doesn’t have to wear latex, enjoy the avant-garde, or even know iconic art all that much to have heard of British pop artist Allen Jones. His work, featured in various collections, from the Tate Museum in the UK to the Warwick Arts Centre, was seen as a standard for pop art of the 60s …

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Clothes Cloak Humans From AI

Whether or not AI can catch you wearing some piece of latex couture or replicate you wearing it to post a deep fake pic of you later (and if it would even want to), is yet to be seen. But concern over AI generators rendering wholly created images or mix-and-matching pieces of already existing pictures …

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Substance & Style With Demi Moore

Could be latex, probably more like leather, maybe even some PVC. Whatever the case may be, the stunning stylings Demi Moore is wearing in her latest interview in Interview Magazine are so worth checking out. As is the interesting Q&A conducted by Academy-Award-winning actress, Michelle Yeoh. In the piece Moore and Yeoh expound on the …

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There’s Yellow Color Latex and then there are…bananas

Working in latex as we do, we know plenty about how a good many materials can make (or break) new wardrobe trends and influence styles. Or simply set a company on its way. So often experimentation in new textiles, be they natural or not, become a ‘one person’s trash/plant by-product/new polymer becomes another person’s couture,’ …

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Luis Royo On The Move

Classic comic sci-fi illustrations are full of semi-clad beauties wearing latex, PVC, and very little else, paired with muscle-bound hunks either coming to their rescue or making them submit to some other-worldly entanglement. Like it or not as seen through a modern-day sensibility, but this is the stuff of fantasy (the artist’s fantasy), no matter …

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Celebrating Latex Lingerie….Once Again

We don’t ever mind giving a nod to another designer, be they using latex or not. Just a few blogs back we mentioned the relaunch of the Yummy Gummy brand, happy as we are to see our friend and talented designer Rebecca Allsop having another chance to see her vision writ large. And you know …

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Getting High On Movie Costumes

We’re not sure how many modern teen comedy movies have had latex costumes in them, but we’ll still easily champion the recently announced American High costume sale. The Liverpool, N.Y.-based film production company/teaching institution, just wrapping its 20th production, has grown with a huge costume collection. And whether you want Dexter Darden’s “The Binge,” tuxedo, …

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Latex In Advertising…again

As we have commented often, all kinds of celebrities wear latex couture and have been doing so with ever more frequency these days. Stepping out at parties or premiers, strutting across a red carpet of a runway, on stage, or in music videos, it is the go-to textile. Really, haven’t we been singing latex’s praises …

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DC’s New Duds

On the heels of all the PVC, leather, and latex one saw on cosplayers at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, as of this week we have been all treated to the ‘upgrade’ of DC comic heroes’ costumes. Allow us some geeking out for this blog… The continuing Absolute Power comic series saw Amanda Waller surely steal …

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Yummy Gummy Lives

We have seen some fantastically talented latex designers, models, magazines, portals, yearly events, and latex makers come and go through the years. There are a multitude of reasons why one person stays in business, in any business, and lots of time that has nothing to do with what a person does or even how they …

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Cosplay @ San Diego Comic-Con 2024

On the heels of her wearing fuchsia-colored latex over black full panties, silver underwire bra, and knee-high boots in an Instagram post her performance at Lithuania’s Vilnius festival, we must give Rita Ora her due. By all accounts she looks fantastic in her half-latex couture, as she surely wowed the fifty thousand strong at the …

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Princess Leia’s bikini

With cosplay all the rage at San Diego’s just finished Comic-Con 2024, we know the PVC, leather, spandex and latex was out in full force. The faithful recreations of beloved science fiction, fantasy, anime and gaming costumes were, as always, stunning. But less we forget one of the most iconic costumes in all of fantasy…the …

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Blake Lively and Gigi Hadid Wear Their Latex Best Celebrating Deadpool

Not that anyone should be surprised that there were some cool wardrobe styles strutted about during and at the after-party, at the premier of the new Deadpool & Wolverine film, but latex couture adorning two of the party’s attendees? Blake Lively and Gigi Hadid showed up pretty much hand-in-hand for both festivities at Lincoln Center …

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New Barbarella

Sexy, suited not exactly in latex, but often in wardrobe any cosplayer would die to emulate and famously played by Jane Fonda in the 1968 movie that bore the lead character’s name, we can all pay tribute to Barbarella. Now, on the heels of a remake of the movie starring Sydney Sweeney, Dynamite Comics announced …

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Kylie Minogue Still Rocks Latex

Being carried to the stage by actors Andrew Scott and Jonathan Bailey while dressed in red latex and heels, singer Kylie Minogue surely made it clear what a star she still is performing at BST Hyde Park last week. The 56-year-old Australian pop diva is no stranger to cavorting in stunningly sexy stage wardrobe, but …

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Dawnamatrix Finalist @ WOW 2024

I truly don’t think I am ever going to get tired of saying WOW, when it comes to our latex designs making it, once again, as a finalist in the World of WearableArt Competition.This year we collaborated with fiber artist Lana Crooks, to present The Scribe latex couture piece and we just received word from …

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When Couture Challanges The World: Abramović @ Glastonbury

While we were hoping for a latex stage costume or even a well-placed latex accessory among the performers at the just-passed Glastonbury festival, still there were some stunning couture moments, not even from the pop world. Performance artist Marina Abramović made a clear message with what she wore during the presentation she called “Seven Minutes …

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Let’s Finally Talk 2024 BET Award Fashion

Getting past all the blogs, tweets, and amateur fashionista assessments of the outfits worn—be they latex, leather, or the current nude dress rage—here is our perspective of the 2024 BET Awards couture. Two latex wardrobes stand out as do the seven different changes host Taraji P. Henson spun through and even a controversial clutch moment. …

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Sukeban, and its latex, wearing well

As this article attests (and it name drops us as well) the latex costumes we worked on for the Sukeban Japanese pro wrestlers’ matches (see here and here) are alive and well. Which, frankly, amazes me, seeing how much action these ladies engage in. I know all about the strength and stretch of latex outfits. …

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Viva Glam Billion Dollar Ball

When you call yourself the Viva Glam Billion Dollar Ball, one might expect some interesting wardrobe choices among the attendees…as well as some latex. MAC Cosmetics held this ball last month in New York City and it was attended by the likes of Winnie Harlow, Lourdes Leon, Kim Petras, and a host of others. And …

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Latex Redux

It’s one thing to slip into a latex wardrobe for an award show red carpet strut-in. Or to be seen in some skin-tight latex couture for a superhero role you have stepped into. And we constantly point out singers in latex costumes for video or stage appearances. But when our best and brightest show up …

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The Four L’s For Wearing Latex In The Summertime

There’s no mistaking that the warmer weather is upon us now…so, is it still time for latex? Following the rule of ‘The 4 L’s’ will see you through the sticky hot weather, while still wearing latex. We have been championing the wonderful array of modern-day latex color choices for some time now. Why not avail …

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Shōgun Couture

As you can learn from reading a little about the Dawnamtarix bio or looking across these pages at our latex kimonos, Japanese culture plays a very big part in what we do. Here is just one blog from our past talking about our trips to and connection with the land of the Norman Reedus Follows …

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